Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Typical home $535,122 (+4.7% in a year). Springfield, MA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,567 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,837 +5%
- $511,285$535,122 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,438 +32%
- $406,684$535,122 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Longmeadow$2,809
- Massachusetts$3,439
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Longmeadow, MA rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Longmeadow, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Longmeadow, in Hampden County, had 15,853 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $149,601 a year and half less, against $71,306 across Hampden County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Hampden County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Longmeadow is a settled community where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents are older than in many places, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year; summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and precipitation is spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, in professional and business services, or in manufacturing. Bay Path University and Longmeadow Schools are among the largest workplaces in town. The commute is moderate, and a good share of people work from home. Across Hampden County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did.
Things to do. Six Flags New England, an amusement park, sits in or beside town, and Forest Park, a garden, is also close by. The Westfield River runs in or beside town for time near the water. A short drive away is Springfield Armory, a protected area with a long history, and a longer drive brings you to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
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- 5,626households
- 67%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampden County had 201,216 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 63°. About 52 inches of snow and 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hartford Bradley International Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Longmeadow
- Bay Path UniversityUniversity or college766
- Longmeadow SchoolsSchool district423FTE
- Jewish Nursing HOme of WesternSkilled nursing facilities299
- JGS Housing ServicesHomes for the elderly with nursing care74
- AramarkFood service contractors31
- Good Food People InceGrocery stores28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 432 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Longmeadow’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Hampden County and the Springfield, MA metro.
Longmeadow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Longmeadow$535,122
- Massachusetts$655,219
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Longmeadow listings, and the typical home goes pending in 9 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Longmeadow26.09%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Longmeadow9
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Longmeadow49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Longmeadow20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
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Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Longmeadow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Longmeadow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.